Free Contained (Evolution Series Book 5) by Kelly Carrero Page B

a part of. I could’ve been going to Italy to give Bernard our laundry, because he and your grandma have decided to move in together; there’s no one around here to do my laundry, I can’t do it, and you’ll refuse to do it because you think it’s something I should learn to do for myself; which is why I wasn’t looking at you as if I wanted to jump you.”
    I laughed.
    Aiden smiled. “See. There are millions of reasons why I may leave, and I say may because the future isn’t set in stone. And the biggest reason of all is because I love you. And I never want to live a day of my life without you.” He put his hand around the back of my neck and pulled me into a hug. “You and me will always be we. Nothing and no one will ever stand in the way of that.”
    Hearing everything he said and seeing the fondness with which he looked at me, I couldn’t imagine Aiden feeling any other way. But, I didn’t feel that any of his explanations were the answer. And as he said, the future wasn’t set in stone and I was going to do everything in my power not to become the person that Aiden would walk away from.

Chapter 13
    Making our way downstairs, the entire UK clan, including Georgia, fell silent and all eyes turned to us. For a second I wondered if my vision had been of Aiden leaving me for Georgia, but quickly dismissed the idea, not just because it was stupid and I never thought Aiden would go back to her, but because the thoughts of the heavy conversation that was looming had my stomach churning.
    “What?” Aiden asked nervously. He glanced at me, his face paled when he saw mine. “What is it?” he asked again.
    Anna cleared her throat. “Why don’t you come sit down and we’ll explain what we’re going to do.”
    Aiden led me to the couch that Lucas was sitting on and positioned me between the two of them.
    “Okay.” Dave sat forward and clasped his hands together. “We’ve been talking and we think we need to organise a get-together with some other next gens.”
    “Why?” Aiden asked. “Is this because we’ve had to leave home?”
    Dave shook his head. “Since those video’s were posted showing the terminally ill, and more so the baby with his chest held together by tape, a few of our kind have come forward and have tried to do what they were asking of Jade.”
    Aiden’s eyes widened as his thoughts mirrored mine. These other next gens were acting out of compassion, but they had no idea what they could potentially be getting themselves into, and more to the point, we didn’t know what a normal next gen’s blood would do to a human. I wasn’t normal and neither was my blood. Nathan had done something to Aiden and me, and none of those others would carry the same abilities. For all we knew, these next gens stepping forward could’ve been signing the death sentences of the people they were trying to save. But so far, that wasn’t happening.
    The babies were still in their isolation cribs and the terminally ill weren’t feeling any better, but were holding high hopes that they just needed to give it more time to work. Whether that was true, was beyond me; but it didn’t bode well for me, or anyone in the room; including Georgia. Even though she had it in for me, she didn’t want to potentially have another mad man on the loose. She feared that all it would take was for, one crazy person with bad intentions to somehow get hold of my blood, then we’d have world war three on our hands.
    “So, how do you plan on getting… however many next gens together?” Aiden asked.
    “Well, that’s the hard bit,” Dave said. “We don’t know how many of us there are in the world and we don’t have a database to pull up in cases of emergencies to organise a next gen meeting, so we’re going to have to go public.”
    Aiden slung his arm over my shoulder and pulled my back against his chest in a protective embrace. He didn’t like the sound of what his father had to say and he could sense that neither did